"Oberon Onmura has been making art in Second Life for over two years. In that time, his unique approach to using opposing forces on physical objects has attracted the attention of blog sites, SL and RL galleries and publications.

His early work with physical objects, "Grid Floaters," was seen at the "Kiss the Sky" exhibition at the NMC ArtsLab sim, curated by DanCoyote Antonelli. Oberon is a frequent contributor to ( and subject of podcast discussions) the Brooklyn is Watching site (http://brooklyniswatching.com/), in association with the Jack the Pelican Presents gallery in Williamsburg.His "Beacon," a 100-meter tower that constructs and then destroys itself, was selected for inclusion in a national exhibition of virtual and corporeal art - the "@ Exhibition" (www.arsvirtua.com) - in association with the Southern California Institute of Architecture and the College Art Association conference in Los Angeles, California (February, 2009).His recent sim-sized projects, "The Tunguska Event" and "Storm Cells," were seen at the Project Z Gallery on the Cetus sim. He recently collaborated with Juria Yoshikawa and Dancoyote Antonelli for a SL/RL event with a jazz club in London, curated by Arahan Claveau."

Saturday, January 2, 2010

With the subtitle "people, art, science, nature" the treeline logo introduces a crossover project between RL and SL. Juanita Deharo, Australian artist and leader of the virtual treeline project explains: "Virtual Treeline is part of a larger real world Treeline project that aims to raise awareness of local and global environmental issues and encourage action through art.It's main focus is Second Life, but the project is about bringing this virtual world and its possibilities to a broader audience, especially as an educative tool for schools and public programmes in art galleries and libraries, so it will also rely on other internet based presences and the production of videos to cross the boundaries from the virtual world into the real.We are interested in showing artworks, performances, science projects and any builds that relate to the Treeline project. They will have exposure not only in Second life, but in the real world and on our internet sites." The opening on 15th of December 2009 (last year!) showed the care- and tastefully designed gallery by Juanita and nearly all the contributing artists came together to celebrate the start of the virtual project: